First composition I fabricate at 14 years old. There are tuned-radio-frequency receiver. School friends and girls look at me with respect, and then I can not stop my enthusiasm. Then radiotechnology becomes my profession, and it is mutually love.

I developed a personal project in my spare time that it is currently in the market. In addition to having fun that it is the primary purpose of the venture, I can tell you that the experience is very enriching experience because you have to do a lot of different activities just by yourself, which normally you do not have to do at work because they are covered by other people or teams at the company.

I think that I'm not exaggerating if what I learned in one year is equivalent to what you can learn at your job in two years or even more and provides you a wider level of skills, and not only in engineering activities.

It is not everything sweet and sometimes there are some difficulties but the balance is highly positive. Besides, currently there are many possibilities at affordable prices for prototyping and for small series manufacturing. For not complicated projects (for sure), the NRE costs are really affordable now so it is a matter of having the idea and the time and wish to develop it.

You are so right about what is possible today - when I started building my own electronics almost everything had to be made at home but today the options for ready-made affordable testgear and (fairly) affordable PCBs are almost unlimited. And when logic is needed an Arduino, or something similar, can be had from China for a few pounds/dollars/euros which replaces a mountain of discrete logic and quite a lot of design time. And the fact that you sign with your amateur radio callsign shows another influence we have in common. 73 de G4CLF